{"id":459,"date":"2004-11-12T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=459"},"modified":"2004-11-12T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T11:25:00","slug":"hugging-by-remote-the-end-is-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"Hugging by remote&#8230;the end is near&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/11\/technology\/circuits\/11hugs.html?ex=1100754000&#038;en=95f5402149274588&#038;ei=5040&#038;partner=MOREOVER\">New York Times article <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics7.nytimes.com\/images\/2004\/11\/11\/technology\/11hugs.jpg\"> on a device that scares me.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The device, which is about the size of a throw pillow but as firm as a seat cushion, is shaped like a person about to give a hug, with two arms reaching up and out from a small torso.<\/p>\n<p>To send a hug, the grandchild would squeeze the left paw of her device and speak her grandfather&#8217;s name into a microphone in the top of the torso. Voice recognition software in the processor in the device identifies the name and matches it to a preset phone number corresponding to the other Hug. The girl&#8217;s Hug calls the grandfather&#8217;s, which lights up and plays sounds. To accept the hug, he squeezes the left paw and says hello, opening a direct voice link between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Once the connection is established, the girl squeezes or pats the device. Sensors convert those motions into a data stream that is sent to the other Hug and converted on that end into vibrations through small motors embedded in the device. Thermal fibers around the Hug&#8217;s belly radiate heat that increases with time. The hug is ended by pressing the right paw and saying goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>If someone is not home to receive a hug, the other person can leave a message that includes voice and vibration patterns. The Hug can store up to four messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times article on a device that scares me. The device, which is about the size of a throw pillow but as firm as a seat cushion, is shaped like a person about to give a hug, with two arms reaching up and out from a small torso. To send a hug, the grandchild [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}